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Erection Night - 2028by  John Boal
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On a girls' night out at the St. Christopher Tavern in Columbus, OH, three women dish on men and the polarization that's fracturing our society as we head into the 2028 Presidential Election. Mollie McGuire, a 40s divorcee, devises a strategy to end the divisiveness by placing an ad on an AI dating app called "The Hack" where she entices a US Senator to break from the herd for two months of epic bliss.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hierarchyby  Charles Hall
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An off-campus meeting between a senior professor and an enigmatic student turns hostile when a chilling assertion is made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Rare Gem (Vertical)by  Paul Henry Landry
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A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Traditionby  Kris Shuman
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A guilty man's diner confession risks exposing a legacy of violence and resurrecting the killer they thought was buried for good.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Avaby  Bill Wyza
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After receiving a phone call from her future self, a failing screenwriter must perform an unthinkable task to achieve fame or risk paying the ultimate price.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Substitutionby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
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During detention, a substitute confiscates phones and forces "consent" clicksuntil the students realize he's not a teacher, he's a replacement.

Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
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A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby  Marc-Olivier louveau
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Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Babbleby  Kevin Pacey
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Anonymous online abuse invades the real world and a vulnerable woman suffers a deadly attack.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Where's Steve?by  Richard Wells
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When a neglected houseplant discovers his owner has died after a drug-fuelled party, he must rely on a forgetful goldfish and a cactus with an identity crisis to uncover what happened before they all die of neglect.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Visionby  Elliot Stanton
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A burgeoning romance on a London tube train halted by a red light begins and ends before the light turns green. Mild flirtation develops into insults when a happy coincidence hastily reveals deep-felt attitudes and acrimony.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Distractionsby  Bob Messinger
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Similar backgrounds, different visions. David's and Hannah's lives are about to be upended as he gets in her cab on a Friday evening.

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Implantby  Dewayne C Bricker
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A writer's nightmares of alien implants fuel his horror noveluntil he learns the story is real and ending it will end him.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Spiderby  Richard Wells
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An insurance risk assessor sent to inspect an ageing Irish boarding house finds himself drawn into an ancient cycle that slowly strips away memory, identity and hope of escape.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Antwon Taylor
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When a couple encounters an unassuming stranger in an elevator, their lives are drastically changed forever.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Aliveby  John Klawitter
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As a result of a possible accident, a computer entity takes over his human inventor's consciousness with unexpected results.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Catharsisby  Rochelle Potkar
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Two WOMEN shoplifters brainstorm elaborately with dramatic rehearsal about returning their loot (a pair of stolen earrings), imagining how the SHOPKEEPER would forgive them and how the media would celebrate them for their honesty. Then after feeling satiated with this drill, they end up into inaction and status quo.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thulirby  KS Punithakumar
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Following a single flower's journey from a morning market to a temple altar, a cremation ground, and a flowing river, the interconnectedness of life, devotion, and human mortality unfolds.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunter Withinby  Lamar D. Vine
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When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Head Traumaby  Elise Marenson
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Two guys get in big trouble when they find the human head of a Russian mobster buried in the sand.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cat Mouse Catby  Mark Konik
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When a bored office worker Whitfield secretly hires a contract killer to hunt him down, he finally feels alive. That is until he discovers the assassin thinks the contract includes actually killing him, and a second hitwoman arrives to eliminate them both.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wake upby  Simon Parker
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When a desperate heir forces a brilliant biotech scientist to use an experimental coma-curing drug on his wealthy father, the treatment works for only moments before triggering a fatal heart attack, igniting a deadly battle over a hidden fortune and forcing the scientist to confront the consequences of her own invention.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Things I Should Have Saidby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
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Cecil is a odd ball kid from a small town and a Pizza man, he is thrust into a world where he has to play out a Cyrano De Bergerac and emerge triumphant among bullies and bad bosses and dire need for romance.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Suitcaseby  Walerian Domanski
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The fate of the suitcase stolen by a policeman during a search of a criminal's house. It was hidden, found, changed hands a few times, and ultimately ended up in the possession of a policeman again. Marginal actors: the policeman's girlfriend, her dog, and the neighbor.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dance Your Dreamsby  Christine Lara
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A passionate young dancer prepares for the audition of her life at the Opra Garnier, but a chance encounter with a man seeking redemption at the Caf de la Paix may change both their destinies.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fisherman's Bluesby  Elliot Stanton
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Angling for answers, a fisherman is shocked by his friend's life-changing decision. And what is under the tarpaulin in the back of his car?

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicemailby  Dewayne
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After losing his daughter, a withdrawn father survives by repeatedly calling her phone just to hear her voicemails. When an unheard message reveals her quiet faith and plea for him to keep living, he must confront his grief and his distance from God. The Voicemail I Can't Delete is an intimate, faith-based drama about loss, surrender, and the courage to step back into life without letting love disappear.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ethan Watkinsby  Peter
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Ethan Watkins has fallen for Patty Hobbs, but two things stand in the way to true love: 1. Terry Hobbs, Patty's abusive husband. 2. plus the overriding fact that Ethan is dead, but little things like this won't stand in Ethan's way.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Second Windby  Dewayne C Bricker
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Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes "one crease at a time." Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hopeby  Paolo Galli
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In a world where losing hope means losing the ability to see color, a young woman resigned to a life in black and white makes a simple, desperate gesture. And from the wound on her hand, she will see a drop of vivid red blood fall.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Old Man in the Skull Maskby  DJ Robbins
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An old masked killer stalks someone on Halloween.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wit's Endby  Barry Staff
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Wanting a comeback fronting a telethon, a comedian needs to thwart a revolutionary taking him hostage there, intent on exposing comedy as just another form of exploitation.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In Creeps the Boogeymanby  Doug J Robbins
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A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  James Peacock
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Two Nashville 15 year olds, best friends before, but now estranged because of economic and motivational differences, are forced to write a song together for an assignment, all taking place in the high school band room over the course of 90 minutes. The music they write builds a temporary bridge between them before they part in different direction. A coming-of-age statement of how we grow apart from childhood friends.

Genre: Musical
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reflectionsby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.

Genre: Horror
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Reckoning Beckonsby  Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
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A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly schemeand poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life-changing Injuriesby  Barry Staff
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A commuter just wants to complete his train journey home, but needs to handle the horrendous events standing in his way. [A single-location, one-actor scenario, shootable in a day, about a pointedly existential situation.]

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Loveeby  Kishore kumar
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Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.

Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby  Robert Godwin
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One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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